Mercer County Bar Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223367993
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Trenton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6095856200
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,746
- Expenses
- $19,006
- Assets
- $40,851
- Liabilities
- $5,000
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANGELO J ONOFRI (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT PANZER (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ANGELO J ONOFRI (PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT PANZER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- T SANDBERG DURST (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The foundation's mission is to provide the following to the citizens of mercer county: to serve as an umbrella for charitable giving to charities and programs whose goal is the improvement of the administration of justice; to increase the availability of high quality legal services to the poor and disadvantaged citizens; to promote the study of law and research through the providing of law school scholarships; to provide an outlet to attorneys for charitable works relating to the legal profession; to help promote a better understanding of the law and the legal system; and to sponsor and encourage forums for the creation of innovative programs for the delivery of legal services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide grants to schools and youth organizations including kites (kids instructed in tolerance through education and support), a mini grant program that is dedicated to promoting the efforts of parents, educators, counselors, and peers to help children learn to deal with and resolve the pressures, loneliness and anger that sometimes leads to violence.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 60% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 46.4%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -117.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.15; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 46.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.